Solar saving neighborhoods money

[brenthutch 444]

47 minutes ago, tonyhays said:

Oof

 

 

That sounds like the epitome of love and tolerance.

[tonyhays 86]

11 minutes ago, nomasoyo said:

That could only make sense to lib

This you?

[tonyhays 86]

5 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

That sounds like the epitome of love and tolerance.

Sounds like the epitome of comedy.  Or as you would say "lighten up francis"

[SkyDekker 1,465]

57 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

That sounds like the epitome of love and tolerance.

Do you need a safe space?

[ryoder 1,590]

Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1-5, 2011 (PDF)

Executive Summary gives good explanation of how the cold temps caused the assorted failures.  

BTW: "Black start" refers to the ability of a generating site to start up even if its grid is down.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

1 hour ago, ryoder said:

Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1-5, 2011 (PDF)

Executive Summary gives good explanation of how the cold temps caused the assorted failures.  

BTW: "Black start" refers to the ability of a generating site to start up even if its grid is down.

Have a feeling not many of those recommendations have been implemented.

[ryoder 1,590]

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Edited February 18, 2021 by ryoder

[brenthutch 444]

6 hours ago, ryoder said:

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My B.S. alarm went off over this one.  
 

[johnhking1 96]

These videos may have already been posted.  I thought they were interesting. 

About 20 - 25 minutes long each.

 

[JoeWeber 2,720]

On 2/18/2021 at 8:13 AM, brenthutch said:

My B.S. alarm went off over this one.  
 

Is it the same ringtone as when you post?

[BIGUN 1,314]

On 2/12/2021 at 11:49 AM, billvon said:

residential solar

Speaking of residential solar - 

 

[brenthutch 444]

1 hour ago, BIGUN said:

Speaking of residential solar - 

 

When one factors in cloud cover and shortened daylight hours it changes the calculus,  snow cover is not the only consideration. Not to mention this example was in near freezing temperatures.  Let’s see how it deals with 24” of snow and sub zero temps

Edited February 22, 2021 by brenthutch

[BIGUN 1,314]

8 hours ago, brenthutch said:

Let’s see how it deals with 24” of snow and sub zero temps

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54 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

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Hush. Brent's talking about the solar installations being maintained by people who want them to fail, not by people who want them to succeed.

Wendy P.

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1 hour ago, BIGUN said:

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Tesmanian?  Sounds totally in biased. From your article:

“renewable energy sources, which are for back-up use, account for only 10% of the state's energy system”

Total fabrication, Texas relies on wind for about a quarter of its energy needs and half of it failed.  A much higher failure rate than coal and natural gas .

[Phil1111 1,149]

2 hours ago, BIGUN said:

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Brent likes these results better: "HOUSTON — Randy Calazans is one of the hottest commodities in Texas right now. He’s a plumber....some houses will need major work, and may even have to be re-piped completely; those must be left for the weeks ahead....As of Friday, State Farm had received about 18,900 property claims from customers in Texas, most of them related to frozen and broken water pipes, he said....Before reaching One Call Plumbing, she said, the earliest availability she could find online for a plumber to come was April 22....

Ms. Gochman said. “I still have to do carpet, fix the wall. It’s probably going to be $20,000 to $30,000 all together.”

So no household water till April 22nd. and then $20-50K in repairs. Plumbers digging into all the ceilings then gyprockers , then painters, new floors. Yeah Brent would like the social interactions with tradesmen. They are probably conservative.He could while away the hours talking guns and manly type stuff.

Or the people facing $16,000 power bills because they chose "wholesale" electrical rates.

[brenthutch 444]

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/what-happened-in-texas.php

“As everyone knows, some natural gas pipelines froze, contributing to the blackout. However:

Remarkably, natural gas still generated electricity at 38 percent of its total capacity throughout the energy emergency – providing on average over 65 percent of all electricity generation through Monday and Tuesday – despite roughly 30 GW being inoperable due to frozen pipelines holding up fuel.

It was the “green” energy sources that failed to show up for work:

The three worst-performing generating assets, on the other hand, belonged exclusively to renewable energy sources: solar, hydro, and wind. Had Texas been even more reliant on these energy sources, as renewable energy advocates around the country desire, the energy crisis in Texas would have been even worse.”

 

 

[BIGUN 1,314]

1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

It was the “green” energy sources that failed to show up for work:

 ". . . natural gas still generated electricity at 38 percent of its total capacity throughout the energy emergency."

Seriously. you consider 38% showing up for work? 

[Phil1111 1,149]

4 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

 ". . . natural gas still generated electricity at 38 percent of its total capacity throughout the energy emergency."

Seriously. you consider 38% showing up for work? 

You have to ask?

[BIGUN 1,314]

2 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

You have to ask

[brenthutch 444]

3 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

 ". . . natural gas still generated electricity at 38 percent of its total capacity throughout the energy emergency."

Seriously. you consider 38% showing up for work? 

38%>12%.  Natural gas outperformed all renewables.  The situation would have been much much worse if Texas relied on renewables more than they already do.  A cautionary tale to be sure.

 

[BIGUN 1,314]

12 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

38%>12%.  Natural gas outperformed all renewables.  

What percent of the total commitment to energy does each one have to comprise the 100% needed?

I'm looking for what percent of their total commitment did they drop?

If NG comprise 70% and fell to 38% of the total commitment and solar/wind is 30% and fell to 12%, then both lost about half.

IMO: NG/ OIL/Gas is a finite natural resource. Solar/Wind are infinite resources, cleaner, and if we don't wean ourselves off those natural finite resources; we're going to be left with our hands on our peckers to stay warm. Not now, not soon, but someday it's going to happen. We need to start shifting in the direction of alternative energy.   

Edited February 22, 2021 by BIGUN

[Phil1111 1,149]

1 minute ago, BIGUN said:

What percent of the total commitment to energy does each one have to comprise the 100% needed?...

 We need to start shifting in the direction of alternative energy.   

Here is a good article from Utility Dive a industry media source on energy generation and transmission. Brent need not read it because it's not delivered by a FOX hack. It also deals with the issues in a balanced engineering standpoint. Which tends to use facts rather than "feelings".

Power experts cite gas constraints as main cause of ERCOT outages, but system planning questions remain

Summarized best by "The fact that this was not wind's fault is not an argument that the wind system as we currently have it would have done better if it were a bigger part of the grid," said Emily Grubert, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech. "It's an argument that we need to be more prepared for emergency situations. It's an argument that we need to think about how we're designing a grid that is probably going to be subjected to more extremes than it has been in the past for climate change reasons, in particular. It's not really a fuel thing. It's a grid design thing."

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NG accounts for about half of TX electricity not 70%.  And we have more than a century’s worth of fossil. No need to wean just yet.

[billvon 2,991]

37 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

 ". . . natural gas still generated electricity at 38 percent of its total capacity throughout the energy emergency."

Seriously. you consider 38% showing up for work? 

Everyone knows that 38% is a passing grade in school, if you have enough money.